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'''A 15-minute drive along a bumpy road around half the runway in the direction [[Croc Farm]] there is a viewpoint on top of a small hill where locals often picnic and sometimes entire school classes gather to watch the planes fly by.'''
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Due to the elevated area in front of this side of the runway planes only land at [[Ivato International Airport]] from this direction. All planes take off towards the other end of the runway. The area is dotted with various small mines where workers are manually crushing rocks into gravel.
